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With Wallace and Carter, the story is their personalities. With Scoop Jackson, who has no personality, the only story is his money. Jackson ran for president in 1972, and raked in the campaign funds from American Jews (who like his hard line on detente and Soviet emigration), such home-state companies as Boeing, and old-line Democratic givers. Jackson kept up the fund-raising effort even after his 1972 campaign folded--so that he came into 1976 with more money than anyone else--most of it large gifts from before the Campaign Practices Act, which limited gifts to $5000, went...
...York is the payoff--Jackson did well in Massachusetts, and about as expected in Florida--but will Moynihan's endorsement play in Rochester? More than one liberal Democrat is worried about Jackson's foreign policy--their line is that Scoop's the one to start World War III. Jackson still has some liabilities from his bald-eagle stance of the Vietnam years. And yesterday three labor leaders, including Victor Gottbaum in New York, former Bayh campaigners, came out for Udall...
...here is Benito's problem: There is a fellow conspirator on board the San Dominick. It was all right in 1972 to lead insurgencies against Hubert, Ed, Scoop and the entire army of crooked-bicycle-parkers that campaigned in Florida. But Jimmy Carter, the Cheshire cat media mirage says he has only been to Washington to get on the tour bus and wants to wipe out the bureaucrats as badly as Wallace...
...withholding rates. This sensible reform has long been advocated by some liberal economists. But in response to a question put by an aide to Henry Jackson at a forum in Boston last week, Carter said that deductions for home mortgages should also be cast out. Sure enough, Scoop Jackson thundered two days later: "What Carter is threatening, in actuality, is the destruction of the working-and middle-class American family...
...Scoop's working class majority faded in only one area--Boston, where the anti-busing issue gave Wallace an edge. But that small solace blinded most political analysts to the Alabama governor's spectacular failure...